Abstract:The Luyuan gold deposit, a newly discovered gold deposit, is located in the Qiongheba orecluster district in the eastern segment of YemaquanQiongheba Paleozoic arc belt, East Junggar. Its orebodies occur in the Upper Carboniferous Batamayineishan Formation as stratoid, banded and lenticular in shape, and are controlled by fracture structures. Hydrothermal mineralization can be divided into four stages: quartzpyrite stage, quartzAupyrite stage, quartzAu polymetallic sulfide stage, quartzcalcite stage, with stages 2 and 3 as the main Au mineralization stages and characterized by complicated metallic mineral assemblage of pyritearsenopyritesphaleritechalcopyrite±electrum. Analyses of fluid inclusions and hydrogen and oxygen isotopic geochemistry were carried out to understand the characteristics, origin and evolution of oreforming fluids. Petrographic observation indicates that fluid inclusions of the deposit can be divided into three types, i.e, liquidrich aqueous inclusions (typeV+L), vaporrich aqueous inclusions (typeV) and monophase liquid aqueous inclusions (typeL). TypeV+L fluid inclusions are most abundant in all stages of the hydrothermal minerals, developed within all the hydrothermal minerals. Fluid inclusions of typeV are smallest in number. Microthermometric measurements indicate that these inclusions yielded total homogeneous temperatures of 115~349℃, salinities of 07~88% NaCleqv, and densities of 066~098g/cm3. The homogeneous temperatures of fluid inclusions decrease gradually, from 268~322℃ at stage 2, through 181~300℃ at stage 3, to 115~176℃ at stage 4. All these features suggest that the oreforming fluid of the Luyuan gold deposit is characteristic of low temperature, low salinity, and low density, which are similar to those of typical epithermal gold deposits. The mineralization pressures estimated are(75~335)×105 Pa, with an average of 203×105Pa , and the corresponding oreforming depths are 024~112km, with an average of 068km, indicating that the deposit has some characteristics of epithermal deposit. Laser Raman analysis shows that gas compositions and liquid compositions of the oreforming fluids are mainly H2O. The hydrogen and oxygen isotopic compositions of the oreforming fluids show that δDH2O=-1088‰~-1290‰, δ18OH2O=-72‰~46‰, which indicates that the oreforming fluids were formed as a result of multiple fluids, and mainly were derived from meteoric water. On the basis of the geological and fluid inclusion features, we conclude that fluidboiling during the mineralization stage may be the major cause of ore material precipitation, and the Luyuan deposit is a typical epithermal gold deposit.